Setright Machine

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A Setright Machine is a machine operated by a conductor or guard for issuing bus tickets from a blank paper roll.

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[edit] Technology

A Setright can print any value and could easily deal with changes in fares. A set of concentric dials on the top is used to set the value and levers can set different fares (such as "Adult" or "Child") and other vital information (such as "Inbound" or "Outbound").

[edit] Features

The machines are reliable and unlikely to jam. A distinctive whirring noise is made as each ticket is issued.

[edit] History

The company was known as Setright Registers Ltd. In 1955 it occupied Eastway Works,Eastway, Hackney Wick, London E9 and later moved by 1967 to Fairfield Works Fairfield Road, Bow, London E3, [1]suitably adjacent to the London Transport bus garage, although LT used the Gibson Machine (produced by Ticket Equipment Ltd,based on the TIM system). Noteworthy were the vibrant export sales to the former communist countries of Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic where Setright machines were to be found everywhere. In contrast the marque was unknown in the former West Germany[2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Passenger Transport Year Books (Berrow's/Ian Allen publishers)
  2. ^ Hersteller von Fahrscheinausrüstung. Retrieved on 2007-09-19.

[edit] External links

  1. Pete's Trolleybus Site
  2. Busesireland Bus Ticket Machines
  1. Manufacturers of ticketing equipment (in German)
  2. Bus Ticket Machines (Gibson)
  3. A brief history of TIM
  4. Glasgow Corporation Ticket Machines
  5. Vintage Bus Tickets